CFP: [Medieval] The Global Middle Ages (8/15/07; 5/8/08-5/11/08)

How do writers and artists such St. Augustine, Macrobius, Roger Bacon,Ranulf Higden, and others describe the globe? Do religious, scientific,cartographical, and other ideas about the world complement or contradicteach other? Do concerns of genre and audience complicate the textual orartistic global imaginary? What critical concepts are most useful inanalyzing representations of the world: hybridity, frontier,cosmopolitanism, utopia, insularity? Proposals are sought for papers thataddress geography, travel, cartography, and imagined worlds. Email toMatthew Boyd Goldie (mgoldie_at_rider.edu) by September 15, 2007.